This dessert, which we still eat today to refresh ourselves, was invented in 1905 by Frank Epperson, who was only 11 at the time.
Frank was mixing it with a toothpick, a soda, when he forgot his glass on the porch. The next morning he found the drink frozen with the toothpick in the middle. So he created the popsicle, which was only patented 18 years later, in 1923.
It was discovered by chance by brothers John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg, in 1894. After letting a wheat mass sit for too long, the mixture has dried out.
Instead of throwing it away, they tried to put the dough in the press to make bread sheets, but what came out were flakes, which when baked became the prototype of the corn flakes.
The best known soda formula in the world is secret. However, by mixing coca leaves with kola nuts and various other ingredients, Pemberton's goal was to produce a headache remedy.
The drink, which was created in 1886, was sold in an Atlanta drugstore as a tonic for a long time. It wasn't until 1899 that it became the soda we drink today.
It was created in 1930 by Ruth Wakefield, who was responsible for the kitchen of the inn which she maintained in the United States.
One day, while making the cookies, he realized that the powdered chocolate was gone. In this way, he believed that the chocolate bar would melt, but that did not happen. When he took the cookies out of the oven, the chocolates were still in pieces.
Thus was created the chocolate chip cookie, which in 1997 became the main dish in Massachusetts (USA).
This time-saving device in the kitchen was created by engineer Percy Spencer who worked at Raytheon, a military and aerospace equipment company.
One day, while handling an active radar device, he noticed something strange in his pocket. It was a candy bar he had saved, and it melted in the microwaves. In 1946, the company patented the idea, and the first food made on the equipment was popcorn.
The medicine used these days for male sexual impotence was actually developed to treat high blood pressure and angina. The discovery was made by researchers at Pfizer's laboratory.
After this discovery, the company changed the focus of research and patented the drug in 1996.
That's right, the material used in non-stick pans was created in 1938 by chemist Roy J. Plunkett.
Plunkett carried out experiments with gases that cooled. But the experiment didn't go as planned. The sample became a substance that almost nothing nailed.
The first to use this experiment were the military who coated tubes and seals with Teflon to be able to produce radioactive material for the atomic bomb.
In Brazil, superglue was best known by the name of the brand that produces it, SSuper Bonder. This product was discovered by Harry Coover, during the First World War, when the idea was to create a transparent polymer.
It was only used again in the Second World War to staunch soldiers' injuries. However, the superglue we know today wasn't developed until 1951.
